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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index a725f9900ec8..3004baa71bcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- DO NOT HAND EDIT. --> -<!-- Instead, edit Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx and run 'sh htmlqqz.sh Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements' --> +<!-- Instead, edit Requirements.htmlx and run 'sh htmlqqz.sh Requirements' --> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> @@ -2171,6 +2171,14 @@ This real-time requirement motivated the grace-period kthread, which also simplified handling of a number of race conditions. <p> +RCU must avoid degrading real-time response for CPU-bound threads, whether +executing in usermode (which is one use case for +<tt>CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y</tt>) or in the kernel. +That said, CPU-bound loops in the kernel must execute +<tt>cond_resched_rcu_qs()</tt> at least once per few tens of milliseconds +in order to avoid receiving an IPI from RCU. + +<p> Finally, RCU's status as a synchronization primitive means that any RCU failure can result in arbitrary memory corruption that can be extremely difficult to debug. |